• Innovate UK Fund Announces Six Organizations Funded by £1M Grant

    The Innovate UK Fund has announced six winners to be awarded grant funding from the government totalling £1 million to jumpstart ‘AI in the music industry.’ Competition assessors agreed that AudioStrip would benefit and strengthen the UK music industry by saying “this is well planned, resourced, and researched innovation that can impact the business, market, […]

  • Andrew Neil savages GB News

    The man who helped create Frankenstein now admits that it has become a monster. “I’m surprised how tolerant Ofcom has been of GB News… I certainly would never have allowed politicians to interview other politicians from the same party… Incredible. On these areas, Ofcom needs to find a backbone… & quick.” Andrew Neil: "I'm surprised […]

  • NBR draws up plan for funding govt vision

    Government's revenue authority has framed a three-tier time-bound action plan for augmenting revenues to finance the building up of 'smart Bangladesh', as present finances are inadequate even for the current budget support. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) plans to implement the revenue map unt

  • Team news: Three changes for Wolves game | Team news | News

    Find out who Mikel Arteta and Gary O'Neil have selected for this evening's

  • Love, hate and Harry Potter – Baptist News Global

    May 2 is International Harry Potter Day, the anniversary of the climactic Battle of Hogwarts in the final Potter book, when love overcomes hate and death. It’s a very Easter kind of occasion, and intentionally so, according to author J.

  • UK unlikely to make snap decision over Unrwa funding

    Tory MPs urging government not to restore funding despite UN’s roadmap, published on Monday, to make agency more transparentA plan due to be published today to improve the accountability and transparency of Unrwa, the UN relief works agency for Palestinians, is not expected to lead to a snap British decision to restore funding to the agency.Britain joined 18 other nations in suspending funding for the agency after Israel claimed that 12 of the 30,000 Unrwa staff had participated in the attack on...

  • Curio raises funds for Rio, an 'AI news anchor' in an app

    AI may be inching its way into the newsroom, as outlets like Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CNET and others have experimented with articles written by AI. But while most respectable journalists will condemn this use case, there are a number of startups that think AI can enhance the news experience — at least on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • GB News' Thatcher anecdote reveals how far from news they really are

    The News Agents expose the far right GB Spews, presenting a Spitting Image sketch as a real quote. And how many fell for it? GB News showing it is little more than satire 🙄😂 pic.twitter.com/LZkujmKgV2 — Tyfanwy Prudence McPrude (@tiffy201) April 14, 2024 There are times when the majority universally despairs at the corporate media […]

  • UK tech funding roundup: This week's deals from Skyports to Lemon

    This week’s UK tech funding deals include flying taxi company Skyports, Scottish rocket manufacturer Orbex, generative AI legal assistant Lawhive and more. UKTN tracked £176.6m worth of tech funding deals this week (15 April to 19 April), a whopping 316.5% week-on-week increase. Here’s your weekly roundup of UK tech startup funding. Skyports – £88m Sector: Mobility […]

  • Good news for Rubrik, bad news for TikTok and medium news for early-stage startups

    Rubrik’s strong IPO pricing and warm reception by the public markets after its listing add more weight to the perspective that the public markets are not as closed to tech startups as some thought. If Rubrik’s result isn’t enough to break the logjam, well, maybe there’s something else going on. But there was a lot more that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Labour gains significant lead over Tories among GB News viewers

    Sir Keir Starmer's party is even more popular with readers of The Sun, The Telegraph and the Daily Express - not that the editors seem to be aware!

  • Grindr Sued in UK For Sharing HIV Status of Users With Advertising Agencies

    The lawsuit was filed by law firm Austen Hays in London’s High Court and accuses the dating app of misusing the information of thousands of users.